Program Description

Managerial coaching is an excellent way to enable the kind of employee learning that promotes the development of organizational wisdom at all levels. In a competitive global economy, organizations must be able to take advantage of the unique talents of their employees.

This program will focus on building, refining, and practicing the skills necessary to become a coaching manager. The primary focus will be on providing participants with the tools to hold effective coaching conversations. The program is designed to give participants the confidence they need in order to engage employees in one-on-one conversations that can facilitate employee development and positive employee action.

An intensively interactive approach will be used. Participants will have an opportunity to practice using the tools they acquire in order to create an effective coaching conversation, which will include implementing the coaching model, reflective listening, active inquiry, and giving and receiving feedback. To help build a coaching mindset, the program will use examples and case studies of effective managerial coaching.

Participants Will Learn To:

• Recognize coaching opportunities
• Structure a coaching conversation
• Promote learning with employees
• Encourage action planning
• Support employee accountability, productivity, engagement, development, improved decision making, and satisfaction
• Provide feedback specific to a coaching conversation
• Enjoy managing others more

Who Should Attend:

• All those who manage people, want to motivate employees, or struggle to engage employees in conversations that lead to development, learning, and commitment will benefit from this program. Those who want to increase their enjoyment of managing employees and enhance their effectiveness can gain from learning the art of the coaching conversation.